(10-27-2015, 07:37 PM)SicketySix Wrote:Actually, it wouldn't. Because people who like guns and the companies that want to sell them also do the same thing.(10-27-2015, 07:34 PM)Edelweiss Wrote:It was a jok, I was not offended in any way(10-27-2015, 06:55 PM)SicketySix Wrote:(10-27-2015, 06:10 PM)Edelweiss Wrote:(10-27-2015, 05:58 PM)V Wrote: The fact that you are on the internet contradicts this.
Heeh. I had a marketing professor in college that said once that ppl who say that persuasion through media holds no power over them are typically the ones who are persuaded the most because they feel that the choices they have been subtly guided to are their own
Straight white American gun loving Republican who will vote for Donald Trump.
How else may I prove you wrong today?
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Did not mean to offend. Like I said, it was what a professor in college lectured on once - not an opinion i conjured up myself just to contradict you. Still, I'm not certain how claiming any of those things can be used as empirical evidence that you are impervious to media suggestion.
And for instance, because everyone is all "ohhhhh guns are bad" owning a gun would prove that media does not have a hold of me. But everything was meant in joking
Marketing is not just "YOU CAN BUY THIS FOR 19.99!!"
Marketing is also me paying someone attractive yet relatable to wear a certain thing and walk around where people who will probably like that thing hang out.
Marketing is you going to a bar, having a good experience, and then bringing your friends next time.
Your forum avatar and signature are marketing.
The layout of this website is marketing.
Everything on every search engine is marketing.
Basically everything on the internet is in some way marketing. Reddit and Imgur are marketing for hits, and their users are marketing for upvotes.
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr users are marketing for attention, which in turn makes the companies money. They WANT you to go there. They WANT you to load another page, because each page that loads even the tiniest ad makes them money. You don't have to click the ad. The ad loading is enough because you the ad is now visible to you. You can scroll past it, but for a split second it passed your field of vision.
This website does not have advertisements...or does it? It advertises FF14 in its entirety, but the transactions taking place here are increases in the size of the RP community. RP is the prduct, activity is the currency.
Supergirl is marketing DC comics, the Justice League Franchise, the Superman Franchise, the Supergirl Franchise. Adding feminism gains them the support of millenials and tryhard parents who, unfortunately, have money and will buy DC things.
Companies don't toss concepts in your face poorly when they actually care about them (unless they have an annoying staff member obsessed with the topic), they do it so that the message is very clear: FEMINISM GIVE US YOUR MONEY.
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